LOVE! My new favorite.

Probably the first time I've found Katharine Hepburn not repulsive.

Too corny to be considered a classic for me but still an enjoyable film that is carried by Cary Grant, as usual. Any scene without him is lacking and some of Hepburn's speeches are so lame that I wanted to punch her. This movie won't change anyone's life but it isn't a bad way to spend 90 minutes. If nothing else, Cary Grant is always highly enjoyable.

581

Predictable, overly dramatic, and corny dialogue don't normally constitute a good or, in this case, great film. But, Hepburn and Grant, along with a few others, elevate this film and story into something that I fell completely and utterly in love with. Hepburn has insane amounts of charisma and makes somewhat stilted dialogue sound as natural as anything, it's strange. I found the main characters ideas on life to be immensely relatable, as money is just as important now as it was then.

#616

Dated trappings and situations aside, this remains a highly enjoyable comedy for fans of Grant and Hepburn, who are both charming. Stagey nature of the film occasionaly feels a bit stodgy, and final resolution is all too predictable, but Grant and Hepburn ultimately win the day. Running gag of Grant the acrobat is very amusing!

Pleasant.

# 570

Released the same year that Howard Hawks sent them careening through the film that defines screwball comedy, Grant and Hepburn generate flinty sparks in a very familiar comedy of manners. The battle of class consciousness, the misplaced romance, the pithy put-downs are all well-represented. It's solid but dated, bearing some of the stiffness of early Hollywood, especially those films that transported stage plays to the screen.

I love Cary Grant, and I love Katharine Hepburn but I'm not crazy about either Bringing Up Baby or Philadelphia Story. So I had fairly low expectations for this. But it turned out to be a delight. The dialogue sparkles, the character dynamics are very appealing, and the plot develops naturally. A bit predictably, but naturally. And Edward Everett Horton is fast becoming one of my favorite character actors. This movie made me a smile, and smile a lot.

609

Solid little romantic comedy that flopped because of bad timing at the box office. A film about a person who doesn't want to work and earn money (there must be more to life) didn't sit well with a depression ridden society on the verge of WWII.

So much of this movie is completely predictable, yet it hardly matters with so many well delivered funny lines, and the charm that Grant and Hepburn each have. I also have to mention that Lew Ayres, while playing a pretty one dimensional supporting character, did a damn fine job himself.